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As the official comment period for the proposed BitLicense regulation comes to a close this month, two of the largest Bitcoin companies in America have revealed their public comment to the New York Department of Financial Services. Circle, a new competitor to Coinbase that provides on and off ramp services for Bitcoin to Fiat and […]

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This past Wednesday, famed venture capitalist and founder of PayPal Peter Thiel spoke to the Booth School of Business in Illinois, Chicago. In his talk on entrepreneurship, Bitcoin, and business practices, Thiel admitted that he felt that Bitcoin is a product which was founded on the same set of ideas as PayPal; however, the two […]

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Talking Bitcoin and the future of music with Premier Studios Owner Sandy Schneiderman

MIT Media Lab Spin-out ID3 Spearhead Group to Build an Open Source Secure and Trusted Platform to Advance Global Digital Currency Transactions Group to Advance Global, Industry-wide Initiative Based on Windhover Principles Media Contact: Chris Carleton CHEN PR for ID3 m: 857.891.2989 o: 781.672.3115 [email protected] Cambridge, MA (October 20, 2014) – ID3 (Institute for Data Driven Design), a research nonprofit founded out of the MIT Media Lab, today teamed with nearly two dozen leading digital currency firms to announce the Windhover Principles, a new principles-based framework collaboratively written with public and private stakeholders to ensure secure personal identity, trust and access to shared open data on the Internet. Key advocacy and support was generated by DATA (Digital Asset Transfer Authority), […]

ID3, founded out of the MIT Media Lab, has teamed up with nearly two dozen leading digital currency firms to announce the Windhover Principles. ID3 is a research and educational nonprofit with a mission to develop a new social ecosystem of trusted digital institutions. The Windhover Principles constitute the next step forward in this direction […]

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DigitalBTC has announced negative cashflow in its third quarter report, but maintains its performance is "robust".

Bitnet Technologies, a digital commerce platform enabling enterprise-scale merchants to accept Bitcoin payments, announced it has closed a $14.5 million Series A funding round led by Highland Capital Partners. Also read: Acromobile And Bitnet Enable Mobile Merchants to Easily Accept Bitcoin Payments Another new investor is Rakuten, the largest e-commerce site in Japan and one […]

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Bitcoin has left its mark with panels at the World Knowledge Forum and Korea University's Bitcoin Expo in Seoul.

Bitcoin… we are all the blockchain Since the first great jump in Bitcoin’s exchange rate in early April 2013, speculative trade has stolen the limelight as the main Bitcoin story. Tweets of “To the moon!” echo like a rallying cry, selling what amounts to a collective vision statement. But what’s the vision? A respected VC assures us it’s “still headed to 10k” as if Bitcoin was a prize thoroughbred being written down by the Bookies, but still had a few Derbies left in her… Is that all this is about? Whatever one feels about the ‘profiteer mentality’ so evident across the Bitcoin movement, it is clear that without this driver, this long overdue financial systems innovation may not have taken […]

Bitnet is targeting large companies with its enterprise bitcoin payments solution and one retail giant is already on board.

The term “Just in Time Inventory” was coined to refer to the efficiency businesses could gain by not tying up their funds in inventory that sat around on warehouse shelves until the product was needed. The problem of maintaining inventory is that it ties up cash you might otherwise need for productive uses. Sitting on shelves waiting to be purchased or used in assembly is not. New efficiency models started in the 1950s Japan to proceed with new processes and rules that aimed for perfect timing for all business operations. The term “Just in Time” was eventually popularized to be applicable at all points of the business process. Having your inventory days approach zero was the ultimate but, thought to be […]

Markets roiled around the world but the bitcoin price held steady last week, hovering close to $400.

Derivatives platform BTC.sx is now offering its BTC/USD currency pair to users on itBit's bitcoin exchange platform.

 NASCAR driver Josh Wise once again drove the Dogecoin-sponsored “Dogecar” in Sunday’s Geico 500 at Talladega Superspeedway. Despite having a strong car for most of the race, Wise was unable to emerge with a finish as Shibes were hoping he would. Nevertheless, the race was a great marketing event for Dogecoin and Shibes should forward […]

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Chinese exchange Yuanbao.com is now offering P2P lending, with borrowers using bitcoins and other digital assets as collateral.

Rockminer started it’s first release of the R-Box a few months ago with a 32 gh/s unit. They quickly grew from there up to the current 800 gh/s T1 Bitcoin ASIC Miner. Rockminer has not lost sight of their vision though which is to bring mining to more people, get them involved and boost the hash […]

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BTC China has expanded its range of services to include a mining pool and payment processing for merchants.

Early Monday trade has Bitcoin price still consolidating below $400. At around 02h00 UTC a now familiar set of hands showed itself in a coordinated sell-off across exchanges. We look at their interesting attempts to preempt a sell-off and examine the effects in the Bitcoin price chart. Bitcoin Price Dunked by Heavy Hands Global Economy […]

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Bitok.com, a UK-based fiat and cryptocurrency market exchange, announces zero fee deposit & withdrawal campaign inviting new users to try out the newly-launched service. Bitok.com strives to encourage as many enthusiasts as possible to drive the bitcoin ecosystem and provide the best trading experience available on the market for advanced users by cancelling fees for […]

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Australian Bitcoiners seems to have a champion within the government, a rare sight that may have the potential to reverse Australia’s current Bitcoin regulatory haze. Labor Senator Sam Dastyari, the chairman of the Australian Senate’s Economic References Committee, has urged a list of 74 organizations and companies from around the world to provide comment to his committee’s […]

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Welcome back to another Bitcoin News in Review, where we feature some of the top stories of the week, here on CryptoCoins News. This week, a large scandal developed over Moopay’s bankruptcy, “The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin” documentary received lots of positive reviews, several companies saw large-scale data breaches, and more. Check out our […]

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